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Yes, I too wish I were in L.A. with all our geek friends.  But thanks to fellow VB MVP, Julia Lerman, she has helped point out how we can view all the content at PDC without spending the thousands of dollars and travel time. http://blogs.eweek.com/devlife/content/net_general/not_at_pdc_live_meetings_just_for_you_and_recorded_pdc_content...

For those living in the Northeast Arkansas / Jonesboro and Harrison areas, there will be two new .Net User Groups.  Details are still pending, but if you’re interested in helping form or attend the meetings, be sure to contact me.  Helping lead user groups is a fantastic resume builder, and...

For those in East Arkansas and West Tennessee, I’ll be visiting the Memphis .Net User Group on September 25th 2008.  David Mohundro , the co-founder of the Fort Smith .Net User Group, will be presenting on PowerShell.  You won’t want to miss this presentation, as there is some terrific tie...

For those that are unaware, Chris Williams , a fellow VB MVP does a 9 Questions series with fellow developers and influencers. I was extremely honored to be picked this week and hope you find the series as interesting as I do. Chris is also an active participant in the VB Insider's List Serv and...

August 22-23 For those that don't know, devLink in Nashville is one of the best (if not THE best) community driven conferences out there. I'm super excited to have been invited by John Kellar to host a couple of the Open Spaces sessions. If you haven't gotten a chance to know John, he's...

If you're an avid twitterer (or twit for short), you'll be very familiar with it's downtime issues. Well as I see it, there are 3 major problems Twitter has. Downtime, Spammers, and a lack of viable income. So how do I think it can solve it's problems? Simple, charge anyone with a follow...

You might want to skip this first paragraph if you are just looking for the RegEx Tools portion. I still find it amazing how the web can create an online social inner-networking that bobs and weaves an amazing web of connections (confused? me too). Here's what led me to find these wonderful RegEx...

I've recently come into several Certification Exam Vouchers and have decided to host a giveaway. Just post a comment to the blog, and I'll randomly select a winner. All entries must be in by June 30th, 2008. You can also post a comment to my cross posting site on GeeksWithBlogs to gain an additional...

A big heartfelt thank you and congratulations to two of the developer community builders in the Northwest Arkansas area, Jay Smith and Michael Paladino with special mention to Zach Young. As a Microsoft MVP, one of our benefits this year, is the ability to award people with a special prize. This prize...

It was this time last year at TechEd that Cory Smith introduced me to the Visual Basic product team. He first introduced me to Ed Hickey, who is the VB MVP Lead at Microsoft. The funny story about Ed is, less than a week after Ed awarded me the MVP status, he transfers out. I knew I was hard to work...